Review of this musical that has been running now for 17 years in The Times.

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THE satirical revue Forbidden Broadway reworked the Les Misérables song One More Day as Ten More Years, with four actors ageing visibly as they tottered round on a mini-revolve. And indeed John Napier’s sets for Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s boiled-down version of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece are still turning, 17 years since this RSC musical opened.

A 'Les Mis' that defines the Broadway extravaganza by HEDY WEISS for the Chicago Sun-Times

And though the show's source material is French (taken from the classic 19th century Victor Hugo novel, with a score by the Gallic team of composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist-writer Alain Boublil), it was always a very British creation.

I wouldn’t break off a friendship with someone who disliked Les Miz. But I would wonder whether that person had an aversion to musical spectacle in general. For of all the shows that bloated the boards in the 1980s, Les Miz is the least expendable: you can walk out whistling the tunes and not hate yourself in the morning.

The men who make les miraclesby JASPER REES for the Daily Telegraphpublished: December 18, 2006

At one time, with Les Mis up and running in 47 cities, there was only one hour in any given 24-hour period when Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's triumphant show was not playing somewhere in the world.

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They have just spent six months helping Cameron Mackintosh re-mount a scaled-down Les Mis in a Broadway theatre just vacated by The History Boys, only three years after its 13-year run came to an end. Boublil was shocked to receive the summons.

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